Orion's Sword - Future at War, Vol 3 Author:Reginald Bretnor (Editor) In this, Orion's Sword, Vol 3 of THE FUTURE AT WAR series, brilliant science fiction and military writers take a close look at the future of our planet in the light of History's only sure thing: The Future of War. As inevitable as the colonization of Space: invasions of earth, the solar system at war, wherever huma... more »ns go, they take their conflicts with them. The socially organized application of force is called war. In this third volume of Reginald Bretnor's unique trilogy of fact and fiction about man's oldest occupation, War, the horizons are spread wide: war in deep space, no hold barred.
Contents:
Introduction (Orion's Sword: The Future at War Vol 3) (1980) • essay by Reginald Bretnor
In a Good Cause—? (1951) / novelette by Isaac Asimov
Chips on Distant Shoulders (1980) • essay by Hal Clement
Time Piece (1970) / short story by Joe Haldeman
Inhuman Error [Berserker] (1974) / short story by Fred Saberhagen
Couldn't We All Just Be Dear, Dear Friends? (1980) • essay by Keith Laumer
An Alien Sort of War (1980) • essay by Katherine MacLean
Early Bird (1973) / short story by Theodore R. Cogswell and Theodore L. Thomas
Inside Straight (1955) • novelette by Poul Anderson
World of the Wars (1980) • essay by Jon Freeman
Superiority (1951) / short story by Arthur C. Clarke
Steel Brother (1952) / novelette by Gordon R. Dickson (variant of The Steel Brother)
Outguessing the Unknown: Psychological Aspects of Future War (1980) • essay by Alan E. Nourse
City of Yesterday (1967) / short story by Terry Carr
When I Was Red Rover (1957) / short story by Dean Ing (variant of Red Rover)
The Wizard Warriors: Computers and Robots in Warfare (1980) • essay by G. Harry Stine
Field Test [Bolo] (1976) / short story by Keith Laumer
Encased in the Amber of Fate (1980) • poem by Robert Frazier